Healing BXO Naturally

For a little while, I've known this but today, I clicked onto the significance of it. BXO skin is prone to cracking, and when it gets injured, can take a long time to heal. I put this down to the physical stresses that are placed on the wound due to the lack of elasticity in the surrounding area. Around the edges of the wound, where wounds normally heal first, the tight BXO skin gets pulled on the most, resulting in undoing a lot of the healing. I've had some wounds where the only way to let them heal is to abstain from any kind of sexual activity until they did. My most recent one, I abstained for 6 days and it healed, but before that, it had taken over 4 weeks and still hadn't healed. When you get these kinds of wounds, something interesting happens. They heal, but they heal as much more 'normal' looking skin, that is wrinkled and has elasticity that the BXO skin doesn't. I have many areas like this. I once thought the problem was that the red was either s...

Tomorrow marks the end of July. I began consciously treating my BXO naturally halfway through June, and after making slow progress decided to set the expectation that I would use July as nothing more than a month where I understood how long this will take to treat. This is my update. I believe, although I'm not entirely certain, that I discovered about halfway through this month that I had BXO over most of the glans as well as the inner foreskin.Since then, I've been treating that as well, with some visible progress. So, what have I learned this month? Soaking with 3% Hydrogen Peroxide does seem to encourage peeling. I try and do this for an hour a day, sometimes twice a day. The most healthy inner skin seems to be responding really well to this. When I say 'most healthy' I mean the skin that has BXO on it but is the least dry and hard. Manuka Honey is great for healing. This is useful for wounds that come from peeling, but more importantly, as a way of helping ...

This week has been a bit of an up and down week. Fortunately, it ended with an up. It began with me trying baking soda as a treatment, since i read about it on another self-treatment for BXO site. For some reason I'm not quite sure, it made me get wet under the skin. This made the BXO skin wrinkle a lot, and turn very white. That was fine, except it didn't peel and stayed white for a few days afterward, making me feel like I'd actually reversed some of my progress. I then began to question whether I was actually achieving anything, and should just bite the bullet and go and see a doctor. Fortunately, someone slapped me into shape and made me realise that this is a slow ailment to treat and I just needed to be patient. The reason I tried the baking soda was that I had began to notice nappy rash powder was no longer working as well. Baking soda was a bit of a fail (perhaps if I'd persevered it might have done more), and I tried Tea Tree Oil, which caused a lot of pain...

I tried using some lemon juice as an acid peel a couple of nights ago, but haven't seen any peeling. I didn't think I would, since I didn't really feel any kind of stinging or see any redness afterwards. They say to give it 2-3 days to notice peeling, but I just have a feeling I'm not going to. Over the last week, I've been at home on leave from work, so I've been wearing boxers and keeping my skin back as much as I can. This morning, I started to wonder if the peeling had stopped, as it wasn't so noticeable, and decided to apply talcum powder. The very first thing I noticed was how much peeling you can see with the powder that you just can't see without. It makes the edges of the peeling skin a very apparent white colour. It's good to know progress is still happening. The other thing.. While I know it goes against the subject of this blog, I'm trying applying a small amount of hydrocortisone to a small area. There was a study done where they...

Lately, I've been considering the possibility that, simply by keeping my penis and affected skin as dry as I can, all the other treatments I'm using are simply aiding the peeling process. I've tried talcum powder, Manuka Honey, Hydrogen Peroxide, and nothing (simply keeping it dry and keeping the foreskin back as much as possible) and it really feels as though the progress occurs at the same rate. The only thing that I have done constantly is to ensure it stays dry at all times. There are two things that cause a penis to get damp under the foreskin. Urine, and sexual fluids. Men's toilets very often have urinals, and these never have toilet paper by them. Some men can clearly get away without having to dry themselves off - perhaps it's how they hold their foreskin and/or shake afterward. Perhaps it's to do with how much they 'drip' afterward. I don't know. I do know, however, that dampness appears to be bad for me. Sexual fluids are pretty well u...

Since I've built up a bit of knowledge over the last month, I figured I'd share some of it in posts, rather than attach it to 'progress updates'. Today I wanted to talk a little about peeling. BXO doesn't heal by just reducing in size; that skin has to go somewhere. From what I can tell, western medicine calls it an inflammation of the skin, and recommends a powerful topical steroid as an anti-inflammatory to counteract the condition. I actually think of BXO as more like a callus. Perhaps, in dermatology, a callus is classified as an inflammation of the skin as well. But when I read the word 'inflammation' and 'recommended treatment is a topical steroid' I expect to see an inflammation with an increased vascular component (eg, skin that is redder than usual). BXO is the opposite. A well-developed case of it, you can scrub with a pumice stone and feel absolutely no pain. Try that on a red inflammation, and you'll irritate the heck out of it. O...

I haven't quite started this blog at the beginning of my treatment. I've started it after one month of natural treatment. When I initially realised that I was suffering from BXO, I got really worried about what it meant. I tried some of the natural treatments I'll be discussing here, but the speed at which they were working got me really worried. Then, I started to see results so I tried to accelerate them because I was so anxious. That act only caused injuries. What I did, in the end, was make a date in my calendar 3 weeks in advance to go and see a doctor. I even booked leave from work for that time. If, after that time, my natural treatment regime wasn't showing progress, I would have gone to see a doctor. It would potentially have been a hellish 3 weeks, but I was prepared to go through with it. I only needed that appointment for about one week before I decided I was happy with my progress and cancelled. After I self diagnosed, I scoured the web for a people...

Hello to all readers. This is intended to become a diary and also a resource for those following me. I am a sufferer of Penile Lichen Sclerosus, who is choosing to treat it naturally. I'm 35 years old, and was circumcised in my infancy. About 10 years ago I decided I wanted to restore my foreskin naturally, which I did. I reached the point where I had enough skin to almost fully cover the glans when flaccid. Those who go through restoration notice changed in their penile tissue, mostly as a result of it no longer being exposed to the elements. The skin thins, changes colour, and becomes more sensitive. So in all the changed that I experienced as a result of restoration, what I missed was that my skin was changing colour for all the wrong reasons. My skin was whitening because of what I've only recently figured out was BXO. BXO stands for Balanitis Xerotica Obliterans. The english translation of this means "Balanitis that obliterates any kind of erotic experience" ...